tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post1203982609062195155..comments2016-12-07T05:28:45.801-08:00Comments on xkcd sucks: Comic 687: Out To SeaCarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-6384225300914996902010-02-02T18:45:20.580-08:002010-02-02T18:45:20.580-08:00his new name is &quot;alorio&quot;his new name is &quot;alorio&quot;Carlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-22176112812407257462010-02-02T18:45:12.014-08:002010-02-02T18:45:12.014-08:00he didhe didCarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-18026311381103774972010-01-30T18:56:21.662-08:002010-01-30T18:56:21.662-08:00That&#39;s Rich Auntie Aloria, unless she, I dunno...That&#39;s Rich <i>Auntie</i> Aloria, unless she, I dunno, grew a penis or something.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-83001557799463531282010-01-16T09:23:18.549-08:002010-01-16T09:23:18.549-08:00&quot;I have never been taken with the idea of sel...&quot;I have never been taken with the idea of selling a gun. When you possess a firearm, you possess something of importance. If you trade it for cash, you have lost it − and the cash in your hand will soon be gone. Sell something else!&quot;<br /> -- Jeff CooperMichaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-32280497010859990602010-01-15T00:14:47.225-08:002010-01-15T00:14:47.225-08:00&quot;Sure. But it&#39;s important to read it as j...&quot;Sure. But it&#39;s important to read it as just another interpretation. The author&#39;s intent, thoughts, feeling, on her own work does not occupy a privileged position that is somehow automatically more valid than another interpretation.&quot;<br /><br />Wow, the logical conclusion of contemporary literary critique is that contemporary literary critiques is meaningless and without worth.<br /><br />Haha, stupid english majors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-45812684835551956812010-01-14T12:59:58.919-08:002010-01-14T12:59:58.919-08:00If you stop letting us sell firearms I WILL LEAVE ...If you stop letting us sell firearms I WILL LEAVE THIS SITE FOREVERPerson #1http://www.blogger.com/profile/17155647957555627795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-9727933249040965142010-01-14T10:20:43.131-08:002010-01-14T10:20:43.131-08:00Someone might have said it already, but this comic...Someone might have said it already, but this comic involves absolutely no &quot;finding random data that ends up equalling pi.&quot; Dimensional analysis involves setting up what are called &quot;Pi-groups,&quot; which are used to establish relationships between variables based on units. No calculations are performed in this aspect of dimensional analysis, and no numerical data is necessary; all that is needed are the units in which the variables are measured, and this is just a Pi-group.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-6573432718389764382010-01-14T06:40:36.465-08:002010-01-14T06:40:36.465-08:00Man you must have hated The AutodidactMan you must have hated The AutodidactAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-46982279471242243662010-01-14T06:21:54.682-08:002010-01-14T06:21:54.682-08:00Thank you anon for your wonderful contribution to ...Thank you anon for your wonderful contribution to 15 blog posts, my email inbox thanks you for it.Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658641232170030818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-24512853372611505972010-01-14T04:31:09.283-08:002010-01-14T04:31:09.283-08:00(like a boss)(like a boss)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-19269751861891980302010-01-14T04:30:53.044-08:002010-01-14T04:30:53.044-08:00eat some chicken stripseat some chicken stripsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-69987431145669919852010-01-14T04:18:21.194-08:002010-01-14T04:18:21.194-08:00I love how any time an intelligent conversation sp...I love how any time an intelligent conversation springs up some fuckwit is always there who doesn&#39;t have the intellect to understand what&#39;s going on, shouting &quot;this is stupid&quot; and &quot;STOP FEEDING THE TROLLS.&quot;Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-3791524140289014282010-01-13T23:20:00.114-08:002010-01-13T23:20:00.114-08:00@ Way Walker
Well it all depends on the kind of m...@ Way Walker<br /><br />Well it all depends on the kind of mood I&#39;m in really, I first discovered it when my cousin was over (this was around 5 years ago) and he said that someone had mixed it together and uploaded it on Youtube, so it was done with Darkside played twice. Our first reaction was kind of a &quot;... so, uh what&#39;s going on?&quot; but about the time On the Run started, things were starting to correlate more (eh, that&#39;s an opinion but, to us it seemed that the music and what was happening in the film were complimenting each other by that time, instead of fighting each other) and we got a good kick when Money started playing, simply because of what was happening in Oz, we found it highly entertaining.<br /><br />These days, since I don&#39;t have my own copy of Oz, I continue to occasionally find it online and start up the ol&#39; turntable in my room (can&#39;t have it any other way than vinyl :P) and usually I try to listen to it however many times it takes (depends on how motivated I am to get up and flip sides every time).<br /><br /><br /><br />A while ago I went looking on Youtube to see if it was still up, instead I found something where someone had tried to match up Wish You Were Here with Disney&#39;s Alice in Wonderland. Now that didn&#39;t work out that well, well almost, it was successful because the walrus and the carpenter part was done while Welcome to the Machine was playing, and that seemed... appropriate believe it or not.Camhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18388252234713990053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-55849571373796473422010-01-13T23:06:20.084-08:002010-01-13T23:06:20.084-08:00TOO MANY WORDS.
i can turn this van right around,...TOO MANY WORDS.<br /><br />i can turn this van right around, kids.Carlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-91190301739407089342010-01-13T21:52:07.630-08:002010-01-13T21:52:07.630-08:00What does this discussion of works of art have to ...What does this discussion of works of art have to do with XKCD?<br /><br /><br /><br />(zing!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-78033647797178115132010-01-13T21:42:19.820-08:002010-01-13T21:42:19.820-08:00Mal
Guy killed me, Mal
He killed me with a sword
...Mal<br />Guy killed me, Mal<br />He killed me with a sword<br /><br /><br />Rarely do I trot out the peacekeeping role, but I&#39;m pretty sure every argument, pro and con, is out on the table now. Neither side is convincing the other. Let&#39;s just all agree to cease and desist and STOP FEEDING THE TROLLS. I think we&#39;re forgetting the real reason we&#39;re all here anyway...tsld32http://www.blogger.com/profile/08940250788365594985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-56021283496149403502010-01-13T21:33:54.516-08:002010-01-13T21:33:54.516-08:00Shut the hell up Mal, you dumb fuck.Shut the hell up Mal, you dumb fuck.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-37317933182656548252010-01-13T21:06:56.426-08:002010-01-13T21:06:56.426-08:00Honestly, the entire reaction against the &quot;in...Honestly, the entire reaction against the &quot;intentional fallacy&quot; is a distasteful one to me. The author matters, because the art is entirely a product of the author. The author&#39;s intention matters, because the art is entirely a product of the author&#39;s intentions. Once complete, art does not magically sever itself and become an independent entity; it remains the creation of an intentional being and to view it otherwise is asinine.<br /><br />A less obnoxious reactionary position is that the author is still important for the creation of a work, but then when it comes to commentary <i>on</i> the work, the author is on an equal footing with everyone else. This is still bollocks, since art is communication--an act of information transfer from the artist to the viewer. The artist as the intentional originator of this information has a privileged point of view with regards to the content of that information, and there is thus commentary on art that only the art&#39;s creator can provide.<br /><br />About the only point I can agree with is that the artist cannot be the sole determinant of an art&#39;s meaning, but that much is obvious as soon as you recognize art as a piece of communication, since audience is goddamn <i>vital</i> to comprehending the meaning of any communication. Any communication is a collaboration between speaker and listener.<br /><br />The term &quot;overanalysis&quot; is still poisonous. Also, I&#39;d love to imagine analyzing XKCD before we read it. Sorry, honey, that&#39;s just...no. I can&#39;t even saw &quot;nice strawman&quot; since it&#39;s really a pretty poor one.Femalethoth (Mal from xkcdsucks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04416392917805723793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-39842461762188152772010-01-13T20:39:59.806-08:002010-01-13T20:39:59.806-08:00Cam: My favorite part is Money, especially when th...Cam: My favorite part is Money, especially when the sax kicks in. What are your feelings on when the new soundtrack runs out? I&#39;ve heard some put it on repeat, or start it on the third lion&#39;s roar again. I just let it end.Way Walkernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-61221332349774771172010-01-13T20:36:11.164-08:002010-01-13T20:36:11.164-08:00I think I agree with everything Rob said, in that ...I think I agree with everything Rob said, in that the authors stated intentions aren&#39;t total authority, and you&#39;re right, in conversation the sayer is the be all and end all, but in any creative work, if it&#39;s important to author it&#39;s often just another form of communication. I suppose the importance is - when it&#39;s something important to the author, the author knows the most about the characters and the world, while all we have is what he&#39;s shown us. I don&#39;t know how that phrasing would allow it to apply to xkcd though.<br />And it wasn&#39;t a strawman, just a poorly done argument ad absurdum!ScottMcTonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-81696846620232485812010-01-13T19:50:40.284-08:002010-01-13T19:50:40.284-08:00&quot;Once you hit send on that comment, your view...&quot;Once you hit send on that comment, your view on what you meant are no more valid than anyone elses, so I can at least behave as if the comment infers such a silly idea.&quot;<br /><br />Oooh, nice strawman! But sorry, I did not say &quot;You can interpret anything in any way whatsoever and it&#39;s completely valid!&quot; I said that the author&#39;s intent is not of primary importance or superior to all other interpretations of a work.<br /><br />If you want to interpret a work as meaning something, you have to be able to back it up with the work itself. For example I can&#39;t say &quot;The novel The Color Purple has an underlying theme that Hinduism is the one true religion&quot; unless I can provide examples from the novel that this is valid. If I can&#39;t provide even a single sentence that this could be true, then it isn&#39;t a correct interpretation.<br /><br />You can infer anything about my comment once I hit send. Let&#39;s assume that&#39;s correct. However unless you can back it up with facts purely from that comment then it isn&#39;t valid. At that point your only defense is to say &quot;Well then it was meant to be sarcastic or ironic&quot; but even then you must prove that it was meant to be such. The burden of proof always lies with the person who lays charges.<br /><br />The reason I said &quot;let&#39;s assume it&#39;s correct&quot; is because a comment I make is completely different from literature. While open to interpretation (otherwise politicians wouldn&#39;t be able to use weasel words), statements a person make about themselves or their own personal beliefs USUALLY aren&#39;t subject to the same rules that a fictional work by the person would be due to their nature.<br /><br />&quot;i fully agree that the author doesn&#39;t deserve a privileged position on the basis of Being The Author, but he does on the basis that he&#39;s spent an awful lot of time working on and thinking about the text in question.&quot;<br /><br />Except that the text exists outside of his life, which is why we can still look for meaning in Shakespeare even though he isn&#39;t around to tell us what his intent was.<br /><br />Fuck it, Rob is a hell of a lot better at explaining this stuff than I am, so I&#39;ll leave it to him. I&#39;m probably just making things worse.Natenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-68771018548020117572010-01-13T19:46:02.590-08:002010-01-13T19:46:02.590-08:00Oho, you clever anon.Oho, you clever anon.tsld32http://www.blogger.com/profile/08940250788365594985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-82384178702612452052010-01-13T19:43:23.298-08:002010-01-13T19:43:23.298-08:00well Way Walker you were right, I did misinterpret...well Way Walker you were right, I did misinterpret what you were going for, but on the topic of who&#39;s view is correct (;P) <i>I</i> viewed your comment as a negative, and the Pink Floyd fanboy in me erupted in a fury of typing, well ok it wasn&#39;t that bad but I did view it as a negative and I strove to defend the point, just because I could &gt;_&gt; &lt;_&lt;Camhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18388252234713990053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-56625341260627769862010-01-13T19:42:20.943-08:002010-01-13T19:42:20.943-08:00Clearly.Clearly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-51548173999603332912010-01-13T19:41:52.177-08:002010-01-13T19:41:52.177-08:00The post above me is clearly an attack on establis...The post above me is clearly an attack on established religion. The poster clearly respects such things, as the capitalization of &quot;Jesus Christ&quot; suggests but he or she has grown weary of the establishment and instead wishes people would think on their own and develop a more personal relationship with God.<br /><br />Or he or she is just blown away by how ridiculous this conversation has become. Clearly xkcd isn&#39;t even near interesting enough this week to be bitched about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com